United States Second Circuit

Petition for review of the Social Security Commissioner's denial of petitioner's application for Supplemental Security Income is denied where, although an administrative law judge improperly declined to consider a report by a treating psychiatrist, the report was substantially duplicative, such that consideration of the report would not have affected the disability determination.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/26/2009
• Decided 02/11/2010
• Published 02/11/2010

Judges

• LEVAL, Circuit Judge:, Before LEVAL, POOLER, and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Cara Campbell, Julie Gendel (Jon Romberg, on the brief), Seton Hall University School of Law Center for Social Justice, Newark, NJ, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John E. Gura, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney (David S. Jones, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), New York, NY, for Lev L. Dassin, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, for Appellee.